How do I do the following?
I have the following url
http://www.example.com/example/test/search
How do I get the "test" from the url using the javascript?
I would like to have a function that I call q = getUrlVars() and when I do q[1] it should give me the "test" (or parameter after second slash) from the url.
I am new to javascript. I know regex expressions is the way to get started, but I am not sure how to use that to get what I need. Thanks!
No need for regex's here. This should do the trick:
var path = window.location.pathname.split("/");
// Use path[2] to get 'test'
var strUrl = "http://www.example.com/example/test/search";
var path = strUrl.replace(/^https?:\/\//, '').split('/');
// Use path[2] to get 'test'
Note that path will be a zero-based Array, therefore you would assume going for path[1] would do the trick. In this case however, path[0] will return the first result of .split(), an empty string.
path[0] is not because it is a zero-based array. It's because the value at path[0] is empty. likely because the string being split is "/example/test/search"
string, therefore I assumed going for window.location.pathname would be a good call.
